▲ 133 ▼ Microsoft outage leaves China largely untouched as tech self-sufficiency campaign pays off (www.scmp.com) submitted 2 years ago by nekandro@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] peg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) The problem is Crowdstrike, not Microsoft. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* Makes not the least bit of difference: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization Literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have seen the Microsoft BSODs that resulted from this fuck up. Millions of people have had their lives disrupted. The vast majority of those will blame Microsoft. Executive boards and IT groups may know better but it won't matter all that much - they will be aggressively looking to reduce their exposure to Microsoft's near monopoly anyway. permalink fedilink source parent [–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago Darwin enters the conversation, "Ah chem!" (raises finger) (lowers finger) (moves onto a species that can configure their own network and printer) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* Makes not the least bit of difference: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/the-microsoftcrowdstrike-outage-shows-the-danger-of-monopolization Literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have seen the Microsoft BSODs that resulted from this fuck up. Millions of people have had their lives disrupted. The vast majority of those will blame Microsoft. Executive boards and IT groups may know better but it won't matter all that much - they will be aggressively looking to reduce their exposure to Microsoft's near monopoly anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago Darwin enters the conversation, "Ah chem!" (raises finger) (lowers finger) (moves onto a species that can configure their own network and printer) permalink fedilink source parent